With a focus on the US intervention that began in 2001, the collection marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies. We hope you can join us to mark this moment. centerforthehumanities.org/event/decolo... @dukepress.bsky.social @wazhmah.bsky.social @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social

NYC-area friends, on May 13, please join me, Zohra Saed, Morwari Zafar, and @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social speaking about Decolonizing Afghanistan (and the SWANA region). @dukepress.bsky.social Open to the public! For more info and to register: centerforthehumanities.org/event/decolo...

Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power - Center for the Humanities

Join us for a reading and conversation featuring writers from this groundbreaking collection, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press; edited by Wazhma...

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If you missed my Rutgers conversation with Zahra Ali, director of Critical Studies of Iraq, on US imperialism in Afghanistan and Iraq and my recent coedited volume (out with @dukepress.bsky.social), you can catch the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=31q9...; more info: tinyurl.com/2nmm63ja

Decolonizing Afghanistan with Professor Wazhmah Osman

YouTube video by Critical Studies of Iraq

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Please join our book conversation with the incredible @costsofwar.bsky.social project to discuss the #CostsOfWar at Brown University @dukepress.bsky.social. Register events.brown.edu/watson/event...

Excited for this upcoming virtual book salon, hosted by Penn! 7 authors gather to discuss their contributions to DECOLONIZING AFGHANISTAN Feb. 19th at 3pm ET. Register here: mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/2026/... @dukepress.bsky.social @annenbergcargc.bsky.social @ascmediarisk.org @miccenter.bsky.social

Thought provoking @ascmediarisk.org symposium on witnessing, "objectivity", multimodality, and enduring in hostile times

🚨Next month! Journalists @kasimkashgar.bsky.social, @youmnaelsid17.bsky.social and @marianabelloso.bsky.social will share their perspectives and challenge us to rethink our approach to media, space and nation. Co-sponsored with @annenbergcargc.bsky.social. Secure your spot here: bit.ly/471OCeI

Please join us for the launch of our edited volume Decolonizing Afghanistan! November 6, 5pm, at NYU. Link to register: tinyurl.com/mrafhcr6 , dukeupress.edu/decolonizing..., with @nyukevo.bsky.social , @sepoy.bsky.social , @dukepress.bsky.social

Save the date and register for the 2025 CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference, "Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies!" View the program and register at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

For insights into the situation of Afghan, Iranian, Palestinian, and other SWANA ♀️ that are not covered in mainstream media, check out JMEWS five most read articles of 2024 including my piece with Narges Bajoghli “Decolonizing Transnational Feminism": drive.google.com/file/d/12SGA...

Calling all media scholars, makers, and outcasts! I’m teaching a grad seminar on ✨multimodal scholarship✨ at @annenbergpenn.bsky.social What are some of your favorite recent works in video, sound, interactive, or other media? 🎥 🎧📱🕹️🖌️ Feel free to self-promote! And please repost to your followers~

If you’re looking for an article on "the crisis of representations", multimodality, and autoethnography, please check out my new article, "Unruly Subjects" in Visual Anthropology Review: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Visual Anthropology Review | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

In this autoethnographic article, I explore the “crisis of representation” and the struggle of subaltern people for reparative representation and media justice. I argue that the field of visual anthr....

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@brookeerinduffy.bsky.social, Rachel Kuo, and Julia Sonnevand on the dangers of hypervisibility, invisibility, surveillance, and authenticity for academics especially women and POC folks @ascmediarisk.bsky.social @cdcspenn.bsky.social Sarah Banet-Weiser @alicetiara.bsky.social @djripley.bsky.social

Todd Wolfson on the importance of academic unions to protect vulnerable university workers @ascmediarisk.bsky.social @cdcspenn.bsky.social symposium with @guobin-yang.bsky.social @bzelizer.bsky.social @rebekahtromble.bsky.social